With watercolor paintings that blend the cozy realism of a daddy and daughter at home with the more fanciful animals of the girl's perception, who sometimes wear human expressions, this bedtime book for readers up to 6 listens in on a gentle discussion about how animal mothers care for their young. Holly asks if she was hatched from an egg—no, says her daddy, "your mother would have fluffed up her feathers and sat on you to keep you safe. Your mother didn't do that." Cats, kangaroos, owls, sharks, and sea horses follow, until at last Daddy tells how he and Holly's mother held her close and cried, because they were the happiest mommy and daddy in the world.